Paul's plans for 2018 include covering Gandhi in Philip Glass's Satyagraha at the ENO, then a German debut at the Göttingen Handel Festival where he will be singing the role of Varo in the opera Arminio under the baton of Laurence Cummings. He will also present a solo recital as part of the festival.

Highlights of 2017 included covering Polonius in Brett Dean's new opera of Hamlet, both for the Glyndebourne Festival and Tour. Paul also spent some of his summer in Dartmoor prison, working on Carmen with some of the inmates, before heading further west to Dartington. There he performied in Purcell's King Arthur, and afterwards as Bob Boles in Peter Grimes, whilst covering the title role.

On the concert stage, recent highlights have included his first performance of Handel's Samson, with Laurence Cummings directing.